Lost, Season 4

Over the past few weeks, my wife and I have gotten into Season 4 of Lost. I had blogged earlier in the seasons about how great it was how this show weaved together so many stories into one seamless experience, utilizing flashbacks into characters' lives before the crash. Well, in Season 4 it takes a turn. It flashes forward. Is flashforwards a word? -nope, it has a red underline. I suppose there are two ways of viewing this season. You could now define the continuation of the main story as the present, which would make the new cutscenes flashforwards, cuts into the future. Or you could define the cutscenes as the present, which would then turn the previous season's present into the past. But it feels much more natural to continue following the "main story" as the present, thereby seeing occasional glimpses of the future. Any way we look at it, it is very effective in spicing things up without sacrificing the beautiful structure of every episode - still brilliant and structured storytelling.